It’s the weekend! I’ve been back at work for a week, and… well, I’m grateful to see the weekend again, ahaha.

Books acquired this week

This week’s mostly been quiet, but I have been impulsively borrowing a bunch of different poetry collections from the National Poetry Library, just trying stuff out and expanding my horizons a bit. Here’s what I grabbed this week:

I’ve had mixed success with my choices this week, but that’s the beauty of libraries! It’s fine to just try stuff out, as I’ve been doing.

Posts from this week

A somewhat busy week, since I did multiple features as well as my usual reviews! Let’s start with the reviews first:

• Fantasy romance (danmei): Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, vol 3, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Non-fiction: Pyramids: The Real Story Behind Egypt’s Most Ancient Monuments, by Joyce Tyldesley (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Poetry: The Iron Bridge, by Rebecca Hurst (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• SF/horror: Walking Practice, by Dolki Min (2/5 stars, “it was okay”)
• Fantasy comic: Love Everlasting, vol 3, by Tom King et al (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
• Historical fantasy: The Palace of Illusions, by Rowenna Miller (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
• Non-fiction: Eat Me: A Natural and Unnatural History of Cannibalism, by Bill Schutt (3/5 stars, “liked it”)

As ever, some of these reviews are a bit older, since I have a huge backlog and try to post reviews for a range of genres over the course of each week. This list doesn’t represent what I read this week — that’s below in the next section!

Aaand the other posts:

• Top Ten Tuesday: Cool Typography
• Discussion: Book Covers (discussing how covers, even ones that aren’t so great, help the right readers find books)
• What Are You Reading Wednesday
• January Reading Wrap-Up

So a really good blogging week, overall!

What I’m reading

Since I’ve been back at work, it’s been a slow week for reading, though I’ve managed to fit in reading quite a bit of poetry since it’s easy to do that in bits and pieces. So here’s what I’ve finished this week that I plan to review on the blog:

Looks like plenty, but since six of those are poetry collections and one is a manhwa, it’s not as much as it looks, really!

Over the weekend, I plan to read more of Catherine Clarke’s The History of England in 25 Poems, finish volume 7 of the Solo Leveling light novel, and… who knows what else? Hopefully my whim will take me some fun places.

Hope everyone’s had a good week!

Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz, and It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? at The Book Date.